retirement and removal from office; and shall receive from the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City such compensation
as shall be fixed by law by the General Assembly, which shall
not be diminished during continuance in office.

The Governor shall appoint to said Court, to take office on
the first Monday of May, 1941, one Associate Judge for a term
expiring December 31, 1942, one Associate Judge for a term
expiring December 31, 1944, and a Chief Judge for a term ex-
piring December 31, 1946; and, upon the creation of any ad-
ditional office on said Court by increase in the number of
Judges pursuant to this Section, shall appoint an Associate
Judge for such term, not exceeding eight years and expiring
on the thirty-first day of December immediately following a
Congressional election, as the law creating such office shall
prescribe. If any vacancy occurs during any such original
term, the Governor shall appoint a successor to serve for the
remainder of such term. After the expiration of said original
terms, the terms of office of said Court shall be for eight years
from the expiration of the preceding term, and shall be filled
as follows:

(1) Any incumbent Judge of said Court shall be eligible,
at the Congressional election immediately preceding the ex-
piration of his period of appointment or term, for election
or re-election to succeed himself (a) for a full term of eight years,
except as provided in (b) hereof; or (b) for the unexpired
remainder of the current eight year term, if his appointment
will expire before the end of such term. No person other than
an incumbent Judge shall be eligible for election to said Court.

(2) Whenever a vacancy shall occur on said Court from any
cause the Governor shall appoint to said Court a Judge who
shall hold office under such appointment until the thirty-first
day of December immediately following the first Congressional
election occurring six months or more after the date of his ap-
pointment. No Judge of said Court, who has stood for election
to succeed himself and not been elected, shall thereafter be ap-
pointed to said Court, and no Judge of said Court, who has
failed to stand for election when eligible, shall be appointed to
succeed himself.

(3) In order to qualify for election or re-election an incum-
bent Judge shall file with the Supervisors of Elections of Bal-
timore City not later than thirty days before the date of the
applicable election a certificate signed and duly acknowledged,
stating the basis of his eligibility and the term or remainder of
term for which he is eligible for election. Thereupon, the name
of such Judge, together with a statement of the term or re-